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A guide for character assessment administrators
Use this package to create a Mission/Vision/Values Statement for your organization
Leverage your team’s character strengths
A series of handouts designed to help you develop each dimension of leadership character
Download the character challenge. Each dimension has specific challenges listed that can be completed over the course of a week
Use this guide as a structured framework for your leader character journey
Contact us to determine if the LCIA is a good fit for your organization
Download the English Sample Report
Download the French Sample Report
Check out the LCIA-360 English Report
Check out the LCIA-360 French Report

LCIA Blog Posts

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Virtues and Vices: How to Balance Your Leader Character

November 2022

When character dimensions are deficient or in excess, even the strongest virtue can become a vice. Learn how to balance your leader character here.

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How Character Can Give You a Competitive Advantage

The best leaders have strong character. Learn how you can develop leader character to give your organization a competitive advantage today.

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What is Leadership Character?

What is leadership character? Learn what it means to have character, and how you can begin developing your leader character today.

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Why 360-Degree Feedback is Best for Assessing Leader Character

November 2022

Studies show that we are surprisingly bad at judging our own character. That’s why leader character is best measured using a 360 degree assessment.

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Interpreting High Scores on the LCIA

Interpreting scores can be difficult when they are all high. Learn how to discern your character strengths and development opportunities using the LCIA.

Why judgement is central to leader character

Why Judgment is Central to Leader Character

Judgment is perhaps the most important dimension of leader character, because it guides the application of all other dimensions. Learn more.

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The Business Case for Character: Why Character Development is Important for Leaders

Investing in leader character pays off. Check out this business case for character and learn how developing leader character will benefit your team.

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SIGMA Featured in Ivey Business School’s Leader Character Paper

October 2022

SIGMA is proud to have been featured in Ivey Business School’s most recent publication about leader character. Check it out here.

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Why Should Leaders Develop Character?

October 2022

Character enables individuals to lead other people & organizations well. Learn more about developing leadership character today.

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Why Character is Important in Leadership

Strong leaders have strong character. Learn more about the importance of character in leadership from the experts at SIGMA today.

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What Leadership Traits are Most Important?

Learn about the importance of leader character, and how character can be broken down into 11 distinct leadership traits.

Changing Your Habits to Build Character

Change Your Habits to Build Leader Character

October 2022

Good habits are hard to build, and bad habits are hard to break. In this blog SIGMA’s consultants explain how to change your habits to build leader character.